Superintendent search set

The folks at the Cape Cod Collaborative’s Center for Executive Search have been charged with leading the Barnstable School District in its search for a new superintendent.

Patriot Staff

Cape Cod Collaborative at the helm

The folks at the Cape Cod Collaborative’s Center for Executive Search have been charged with leading the Barnstable School District in its search for a new superintendent. In a unanimous vote during a special meeting Nov. 17, the school committee agreed to hire the group, housed in the former Osterville Elementary School building, to oversee the search to fill the position, which will be vacated in August 2011, following the retirement of current Supt. Dr. Patricia Grenier. Joe Gilbert, lead search consultant for CES, walked the committee through a timeline of the search process, stressing the need for the proper formation of a superintendent search committee. Such a committee, Gilbert advised, should include two school committee members, faculty representatives, general and special education parents, two school administrators and three community members. Pat McDonald and Margeaux Weber were elected to serve as the school committee members, with McDonald proposing and the committee accepting a motion to include Town Council liaison Jan Barton on the search committee, as well. The overall search is expected to cost the district roughly $22,000, and according to Gilbert should result in the naming of the new superintendent sometime this spring. The school committee will hold another special meeting Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. to determine a fair compensation range for the position, based on data from similar school districts.

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